Serve and not be served to be a true servant.

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Devotion

Serve and not be served to be a true servant

Once will never blame a Men for working to earn a living. What is wrong is putting service ahead of the love of service. Just as one cannot speak of a vocation when there is not, or when there is no longer, the love of service, a service that comes before the love of serving is a bad service or a selfish service.

To serve uselessly is to put oneself at the service of others. It is not about accepting any kind of service. It is about valuing what we have freely chosen to do out of love while demanding working conditions that allow us to improve the quality of service we offer to others.

Importance of relationships or qualities of relationships?

Life has taught us that in a certain sense that has everything to do with the coexistence of hypocrisy and honesty in society, she is a matter of relationship. If you don't have a relationship you are nothing. Whether the relationship is good or bad does not matter. He who has relationships is honoured. This is the reason why instead of seeking to have a good relationship with God so that he allows us to have or maintain quality relationships, men strive to run after relationships that will make them varied between interested love and veiled hypocrisy. A child of God does not run after relationships. It is the good and/or bad quality relationships that constantly come to him who, thanks to his discerning spirit, will have to choose what is best for him. Our choice must be a light that not only positively impacts our life, but also that of others so that they too will strive to maintain a closer relationship with the one who has plans for prosperity for all who respond favourably to his call to become salts of the earth and lights of the world through the quality of their acts.

To serve God or to serve men?

There is no better way to serve God than to make ourselves available or to use our skills in the service of a common interest. Service is an individual act that is part of a community dynamic whose ultimate goal is to give thanks to God for his benefits. Serving God also requires submission to earthly authorities, especially when they exercise their authority worthily. Respect for an authority requires first that this authority be respectable. Being a representation of divine authority is not enough! One should preach by an example that encourages others to militate in favour of the virtues of truth, peace and the love of a job well done. For example, I must respect and serve my employer because the service he renders to God calls me to serve him as God wants. If he deviates from his mission by adopting attitudes that contradict the values ​​he is supposed to embody or represent, I have the freedom to say no to him and to distance myself from him if necessary.

We must not work to work just because we have to eat or to make a good impression. We must seek to work to sanctify ourselves by contenting ourselves with what God has given us. An activity which does not aim at such a goal is at the service of men and not at the service of God.

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The doctrine of sanctification : some introductory thoughts & recommanded resources 

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